Junior High Game: Switch-a-roo!

Here is a great game we love from our Junior High Ministry!  Enjoy!

Switch-a-roo

Goal:  Guess changes in your partners appearance before they guess the changes in your appearance.

Set-Up:  Have everyone in the room find a partner.  This is a great game for groups of any size.  It is all based on everybody having a partner.

Game Play:  Students stand face to face.  They study what each others features and clothing for about 10 seconds.  Then the students turn around and are back to back.  While turned around they can change something about their appearance.  On the the count of three everybody turns around and tries to figure out what changed about their partner (this could be removing glasses, changing the part in their hair, taking off some jewelry, untying their shoes, un-tucking their shirt, or even removing the booger from their nose…these are junior high students).  The first person in each pair to say what was changed about the other person is the winner for that group.

You can then have winners move on and find new partners till you get down to one student.

A great way to change this up is have students change more than one thing and have the guessing last a little longer.  Make them guess two or three things that have changed about their partner.

Variation:  A great way to turn this into an upfront game is to play boys against girls.  Have a boy and a girl come up front and do this in front of the entire group.  If the boy wins then all the boys win and if the girl wins all the girls win.

This is a great game to use during class time, but it is also something you can pull out while on a trip as a time filler just for fun.

Enjoy and let us know when and where you use this game.